I have a machine with 2 TB of RAM and I am running a sort command on a file of size 150G where I have specified the buffer-size as 1000G, after doing my bit of reasearch on google, I got this piece of ...

I am currently working on analyzing the performance of an application. I've starting by looking at the logs generated by our application and identifying the business logic tasks that are taking more ...

If I have an input file with a list of users and their dates they were last signed in, how can I select with a sort | awk function the last minute lines?
The dates are written in a +%H:%M:%S format.
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I'm looking for an existing Linux command-line tools that can accomplish the following:
Consider there is an input stream /dev/inputstream which spews an infinite stream of data that looks like this:
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Given a list of file names, how can I sort it by file modification time?
The resulting output needs to look exactly like the input with the exception that the data has been sorted accordingly.
Here ...

Okay, So I've been attempting this for about three hours now without success.
How do you search/display/use the top command (or ps command if it works...) to output a list of all procs, sorted by CPU ...

I'd like to sort all the directories/files in a specific directory based on their size (using du -sh "name").
I need to apply this command to all directories in my location, then sort them based on ...

I was using ls -l on a directory, and was surprised that spaces and underscores were ignored for the sort order. For example,
$ echo $LANG
en_AU.UTF-8
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 sparhawk sparhawk 0 ...

I have the following problem concerning the sorting of a content of a file. I have a file called points.txt and it contains the following table of data:
Jim:4
Tim:8
Lin:6
Tom:1
Esko:2
Jaska:5
Erkki:7 ...

I have a huge music playlist and, while some artists have many albums, others have just one song. I wanted to sort the playlist so the same artist won't play twice in a row, or his songs won't end up ...